Dependency: a Critical Synthesis of the Literature

1974/03/01 by Ronald H. Chilcote · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Artificial intelligence #Computer science #Dependency (UML) #Epistemology #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Law #Library science #Philosophy #Political science #Politics #Social Capital and Networks #Sociology #Subject (documents) #World Systems and Global Transformations

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Abstract

The following synthesis attempts to identify the major tendencies in the dependency literature and to introduce the reader to the major works and issues on the subject. Ronald Chilcote is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.

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